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A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters is the first book in English to explain systematically and in detail the true origin of each of the General Use Characters - the 1,945 characters prescribed by the Japanese Ministry of Education for everyday use. One of the main features of this new text is that the first 996 characters, officially designated Educational Characters, are arranged in grades according to the six-grade system used in Japanese schools. Since these grades are based upon a combination of frequency and importance, those who wish to study only the first few hundred characters will know that they are covering the most useful ones. It is hoped that A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters will remove much of the mystique surrounding characters and thus make them more familiar, accessible, and easy to remember for the Western person, be they academic scholar, student, or general reader with an interest in Japan and its language.
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